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• Magazine

  COMPRESSOR FAILURES

  ROOT CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS FOR GE GAS TURBINE COMPRESSOR FAILURES BY RODGER ANDERSON & ROBERT TRAVER   Most gas turbines have axial flow compressors with multiple rows of ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Energy & Conference News

  GE Hitachi bags contract to decommission Massachusetts nuclear plant

  GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has been awarded a contract by Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) to decommission the reactor internals and reactor pressure vessel at the Pilgrim Nuclear ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Siemens gas turbine to facilitate district heating by renewable fuels in Gothenburg

  With this in mind Göteborg Energi and Siemens have come together in a cooperation agreement with the aim of testing state-of-the-art gas turbine technology that enables the operation ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  One of 8 JAC turbines shipped for 5,300 combined cycle

   Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. has shipped a JAC (J-Series Air Cooled) gas turbine, the latest model in its mainstay J-Series of gas turbines on December 5. The ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Company News

  Groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for test facility

  Elliott Group announced today that it will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a new, $60M state-of-the-art test facility for its recently acquired product line of cryogenic pumps and ...

  On December 4, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  Relief valves for positive displacement pumps

  Since positive displacement pumps are not self- limiting, i.e., they can produce increasing pressure if sufficient driver power is available, a device to limit pump pressure and horsepower ...

  On December 4, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Combined Cycle

  Ansaldo’s GT36 to power combined cycle in Italy

  Edison, a leader in energy transition, is constructing a combined cycle powered by natural gas, in Presenzano in the province of Caserta. The power plant will have a total ...

  On December 4, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  OPRA to supply gas turbine to Netherlands offshore facility

  OPRA Turbines has signed an order with Spirit Energy to deliver one OP16-3B gas turbine generator set for their Markham J6A offshore platform in the Dutch sector of ...

  On December 4, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Magazine

  U.S. POWER INDUSTRY OUTLOOK 2020

  YEAR THREE OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DRIVE FOR ENERGY DOMINANCE BY BRITT BURT AND BROCK RAMEY President Donald Trump’s goal of achieving energy dominance took several steps forward in ...

  On December 1, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  The use of hydrodynamic couplings

  Rigidly coupling an electric motor with a compressor or pump will have to deal with the problem of starting torque which can be overcome when a soft coupling ...

  On November 28, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors